MANDIANT, an elite provider of incident response management services and solutions, announced today that its President and CEO, Kevin Mandia, will discuss the latest security threats and trends in a “State of the Hack” session at this year’s SecTor Security Conference.
The “State of the Hack” session will take place on Tuesday, November 20 at 4:30 p.m. ET. During this presentation, Mandia will present case studies that describe recent computer security incidents including the impacts and challenges each organization faced. Mandia will also demonstrate the state-of-the-art methods being used to respond to these incidents, and address emerging trends and technologies that offer strategic approaches to minimizing security risks and liabilities in the information age.
Kevin Mandia, MANDIANT President and CEO, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of information security. Over the course of his fifteen years in the industry, Kevin has responded to hundreds of incidents in both the public and private sectors. He is a frequent speaker and instructor, having presented at numerous industry conferences including Black Hat and Interop. He has also appeared on CNN, NBC News and Fox News.
This year’s SecTor Security Conference will be held November 20-21, 2007, at the Metro Toronto Convention Center (MTCC) in Toronto, Canada. For more information on this event, visit: http://www.sector.ca/.
MANDIANT is the information security industry’s leading provider of incident response and computer forensics solutions and services. Headquartered in Alexandria, Va., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Reston, Va., MANDIANT provides products, professional services and education to Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, government agencies, domestic and foreign police departments and leading U.S. law firms. MANDIANT comprises one of the industry’s largest incident response and forensics forces. The authors of eleven books, MANDIANT security consultants and engineers hold top government security clearances and certifications and advanced degrees from some of the most prestigious computer science universities. To learn more about MANDIANT visit www.mandiant.com, read M-unition, the company blog: http://blog.mandiant.com, or follow on Twitter @MANDIANT.